Ruben Simon BECKER

Position
Researcher
E-mail
rubensimon.becker@unive.it
Academic discipline
Information Processing Systems [IINF-05/A]
Website
https://www.unive.it/people/rubensimon.becker (personal record)
Office
Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dais
Where: Campus scientifico via Torino
Room: office 108 (Epsilon building, 1st floor)

Office hours

Send an email to rubensimon.becker@unive.it to schedule a meeting.

Teaching activity current year

ECONOMIA E COMMERCIO [ET4]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

INFORMATICA [CT3]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

INFORMATICA [CTR3]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

INFORMATICA [R320]
Corso di Dottorato (D.M.226/2021)

Teaching activity previous years

INFORMATICA [CT3]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

INFORMATICA [CTR3]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

ECONOMIA E COMMERCIO [ET4]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

DIGITAL MANAGEMENT [ET7]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

DIGITAL MANAGEMENT [ETR7]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

ECONOMIA E COMMERCIO [ET4]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

ECONOMIA E COMMERCIO [ET4]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

INFORMATICA [R220]
Corso di Dottorato (D.M.45)

ECONOMIA E COMMERCIO [ET4]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

Activities and research skills

Main departmental research areas and fields
Area: Informatica Linea: BIOINFORMATICS
Area: Informatica Linea: INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Compressed Indexes for Regular Languages with Applications to Computational Pan-genomics
SSD:
INFO-01/A
Other members of the research group:
Alessio CAMPANELLI
Sung-hwan KIM
Nicola PREZZA
Daniel PUTTINI
Carlo TOSONI
REGINDEX - Compressed Indexes for Regular Languages with Applications to Computational Pan-genomics
Funding body:
ERC
Type:
HorizonEurope - Excellence Science
Role in the project:
LD
Sito di progetto:
https://pric.unive.it/projects/regindex/
Starting date:
Year: 2022 Length in months: 60
Other members of the research group:
Alessio CAMPANELLI
Sung-hwan KIM
Nicola PREZZA
Daniel PUTTINI
Carlo TOSONI

Publication highlights

Becker, Ruben; Emek, Yuval; Ghaffari, Mohsen; Lenzen, Christoph Decentralized Low-Stretch Trees via Low Diameter Graph Decompositions in SIAM JOURNAL ON COMPUTING, vol. 53, pp. 247-286 (ISSN 0097-5397)
DOI 2024, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5068732


Ruben Becker; Manuel Cáceres; Davide Cenzato; Sung-Hwan Kim; Bojana Kodric; Francisco Olivares; Nicola Prezza Sorting Finite Automata via Partition Refinement , 31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023), Görtz, Inge Li and Farach-Colton, Martin and Puglisi, Simon J. and Herman, Grzegorz, Convegno: 31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023)
DOI 2023, Article in Conference Proceedings - ARCA card: 10278/5035218


Becker R.; D'Angelo G.; Ghobadi S.; Gilbert H. Fairness in Influence Maximization through Randomization in THE JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH, vol. 73, pp. 1251-1283 (ISSN 1076-9757)
DOI 2022, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5029500


BECKER R.; FORSTER S.; KARRENBAUER A.; LENZEN C. Near-optimal approximate shortest paths and transshipment in distributed and streaming models in SIAM JOURNAL ON COMPUTING, vol. 50, pp. 815-856 (ISSN 0097-5397)
DOI 2021, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5029540


Becker R.; Sagraloff M.; Sharma V.; Yap C. A near-optimal subdivision algorithm for complex root isolation based on the Pellet test and Newton iteration in JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION, vol. 86, pp. 51-96 (ISSN 0747-7171)
DOI 2018, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5029566


List of publications

Curriculum vitae

Ruben Becker holds a PhD degree from Saarland University (Germany). While being a doctoral student (2014-2018) he was a member of the Algorithms and Complexity department at Max Planck Institute for Informatics. He was then a Postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Science Department of the Gran Sasso Science Institute in L'Aquila, Italy (2018-2022). Since November 2022 he is a researcher at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (RTD-A until November 2025, RTT since December 2025). His research evolves around the topics algorithms, graphs, and randomness. For more information, see this website.

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